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Get Smart:S1-S2 (2-Season-DVD/Side-By-Side/Bellyband/DVD)

Maxwell Smart is back...And Loving it! And so is Agent 99, The Chief, Fang and the rest of the fearless Get Smart gang. Here is the legendary, Emmy Award-Winning spy-spoof series inspired by the comic genious of Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, digitally restored, remastered and brought to you by HBO Video. Now its easier than ever to out-smart the world's least secret...secret agent, in this cunningly funny 4-DVD collection, featuring all 30 episodes of Get Smart's first hit season, including the hilarious pilot, "Mr. Big," and the award-winning classic double-episode, "Ship of Spies." So if the object of your mission is timeless family comedy...grab your shoe phone and get ready...for Get Smart!

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Smart. Maxwell Smart. The dumbest spy in the world, who fights on behalf of the forces of goodness and niceness, and succeeded in making democracy vs. communism a lot more entertaining. And the first two seasons see this classic spy/comedy series blossom from a solid comedy to a brilliant one, even as it adds supervillain nemeses, KAOS masterminds, and the occasional overweight Arab prince.

Don Adams is Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, a not-so-bright spy with an endless arsenal of strange devices and odd sayings. The bumbling spy at a top-secret government agency called Control, which is responsible for keeping the free world free. Backing him up is his beautiful partner/love interest Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) and his long-suffering Chief (Eward Platt) who puts up with Smart's constant mistakes.

Together with 99 and the Chief (and his faithful dog Fang), Max battles the forces of badness and rottenness -- namely, the anti-Control called KAOS. Among the enemies the Control agents face: the dwarfish "Mr. Big," the fashion forces of evil, a likable killer robot, a Chinese mastermind called the Claw, and explosive paintings. And that's only the first season.

The second season starts off rockily, with KAOS reprogramming Hymie to murder the Chief, and soon they step up their attacks against CONTROL: KAOS's new leader Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) kidnaps the Chief, and Max responds by kidnapping KAOS's top assassin... unfortunately sparking off a bunch of revenge kidnappings, until nobody is left at either organization.Read more ›

I grew up watching reruns of Get Smart with my parents--and I can honestly say that it's one of the funniest spy parodies out there, with Don Adams as the bumbling Maxwell Smart. Admittedly, my parents lived through the Cold War era with the rise of the spy thriller genre, James Bond, etc., and some of that backdrop is necessary to get the most out of Get Smart. To truly enjoy a parody, you must understand what is being parodied. And Get Smart skewers every trope, every over-hyped cliche of the Bond films and the Cold War with comedic precision. Whether fighting the forces of evil KAOS or his own incompetence, Maxwell Smart, like cream, always rises to the top.The first season is very entertaining, but you get a sense that the writers and cast are finding themselves, so to speak. Not so with season two--it starts off right out of the gate with hilarious episode after hilarious episode. Both of them are worth watching for the full experience.Very highly recommended.

The humor still resonates although the 10 year old set does not get the shoe phone gags. The cone of silence is invoked daily in our house. My daughter laughs and laughs and laughs at this. Nice, clean entertainment with no commercials and no overly sophisticated tween/teen stuff.

Get Smart has been one of my favorite television shows since I was a kid. As a kid, the fun for me was the antics of comic genius Don Adams. As an adult , half of show’s fun is trying to catch all the references to the spy movies and television shows that Get Smart brilliantly satirizes. The other half is still the antics of Don Adams.

This combo pack has exactly the same content and packaging as the individual sets. If the price is right, this is an economical way to pick up seasons one and two of Get Smart.

Season One:The first season of Get Smart aired from September 1965 to May 1966. This set has all 30 uncut and remastered episodes spread out over 4 single-sided dual-layered dvds.

The episodes on this set are:

Disc One:01. Mr. Big (This is the only black’n’white episode of Get Smart)02. Diplomat's Daughter03. School Days04. Our Man in Toyland05. Now You See Him... Now You Don't06. Washington4, Indians307. KAOS in CONTROL (Barbara Bain of Mission Impossible guest stars)08. The Day Smart Turned Chicken

Disc Three:17. Kisses for KAOS18. The Dead Spy Scrawls (watch for a cameo appearance by Leonard Nimoy)19. Back to the Old Drawing Board20. All in the Mind21. Dear Diary22. Smart, the Assassin23. I'm Only Human